Monday, March 29, 2004

Dammit

I knew they were going to do this, but it still sucks monkey butt. Sniveling, weak-minded politicians. Once you strip away all the blah-blah, Jesus hates gays crap what you have left is this: The court found that the constitution forbade discrimination, so the legislature caved into a bunch of religious fanatics and enshrined discrimination into their constitution. I don't necessarily think that this will lead to a bunch of other bills designed to force the religious beliefs of a fanatical minority on the rest of us, but I still worry. The Christian Right has been trying to dismantle our democracy and replace it with a theocracy for years, and they have won a partial victory in legislating second-class citizenship for people based on their interpetation of the Bible. It's only going to give them energy to use the government to thwack other hated groups with the Bible. Women in particular have much more cause to worry now.